Music Monday: You can sit beside me when the world comes down
The drill: a rec post consisting of one music video, one song, and one album all centralized around some vague theme.
This week's theme is the big event that happened this past weekend: Hurricane Irene. I'm on the West Coast until I head back to Boston for school later this week, so I missed that and the earthquake over there. I was glad to hear that by the time Irene hit the Northeast she got downgraded to a tropical storm, but my thoughts are with the families further south who lost loved ones to the hurricane.
MUSIC VIDEO:
Rusted From The Rain - Billy Talent
So the song itself is about the wreckage after a bad breakup and is kind of bummer-y, but I really enjoyed the music video. It took the phrase "rusted from the rain" on a more literal route, following an old man as he gathers scrap metal from junkyards and such, and then with a nifty little twist at the end. The general idea of rebuilding from destruction, making something new out of the old and used, that kind of thing.
SONG:
Hurricane - The Hush Sound
The song choice was between this, "Hurricane" by Something Corporate, and "Hurricane" by 30 Seconds To Mars (the music video for that song.....no. Just, no). And "Hurricane" by Panic! at the Disco and "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions. Anyway, this is a slow sad ballad-like song about (you guessed it) the aftermath of a breakup. Or, she's in the middle of breaking up with him and the hurricane is their bad relationship and how it always degenerates into fighting between the two of them. Something like that. It's a very pretty, soft piano-driven song.
ALBUM:
When The World Comes Down - The All-American Rejects
Well, the world didn't come down with the hurricane, but a bunch of trees sure did. Most of the pictures my friends posted were trees blocking roads. So anyway, this isn't an amazing album, but it's not terrible. It's okay. It's less poppy punk than AAR's older albums, closer to mainstream-ish rock I suppose. Still with poppy flavor, though. Oddly enough, my favorite song is probably the bonus track. I'm not sure what that says about the album, but it could just be me.
Standout tracks: Fallin' Apart; Gives You Hell; Mona Lisa; Real World; Back To Me; Believe; Sunshine (Bonus Track)
This week's theme is the big event that happened this past weekend: Hurricane Irene. I'm on the West Coast until I head back to Boston for school later this week, so I missed that and the earthquake over there. I was glad to hear that by the time Irene hit the Northeast she got downgraded to a tropical storm, but my thoughts are with the families further south who lost loved ones to the hurricane.
MUSIC VIDEO:
Rusted From The Rain - Billy Talent
Click to viewSo the song itself is about the wreckage after a bad breakup and is kind of bummer-y, but I really enjoyed the music video. It took the phrase "rusted from the rain" on a more literal route, following an old man as he gathers scrap metal from junkyards and such, and then with a nifty little twist at the end. The general idea of rebuilding from destruction, making something new out of the old and used, that kind of thing.
SONG:
Hurricane - The Hush Sound
The song choice was between this, "Hurricane" by Something Corporate, and "Hurricane" by 30 Seconds To Mars (the music video for that song.....no. Just, no). And "Hurricane" by Panic! at the Disco and "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions. Anyway, this is a slow sad ballad-like song about (you guessed it) the aftermath of a breakup. Or, she's in the middle of breaking up with him and the hurricane is their bad relationship and how it always degenerates into fighting between the two of them. Something like that. It's a very pretty, soft piano-driven song.
ALBUM:
When The World Comes Down - The All-American Rejects
Well, the world didn't come down with the hurricane, but a bunch of trees sure did. Most of the pictures my friends posted were trees blocking roads. So anyway, this isn't an amazing album, but it's not terrible. It's okay. It's less poppy punk than AAR's older albums, closer to mainstream-ish rock I suppose. Still with poppy flavor, though. Oddly enough, my favorite song is probably the bonus track. I'm not sure what that says about the album, but it could just be me.
Standout tracks: Fallin' Apart; Gives You Hell; Mona Lisa; Real World; Back To Me; Believe; Sunshine (Bonus Track)